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Star Alliance Named Best Airline Alliance at Australian Business Traveller Awards

Star Alliance, the world’s longest serving and most comprehensive airline alliance, has been named Best Airline Alliance by Australian Business Traveller, Asia-Pacific's leading website for business travellers and frequent flyers.

Australian Business Traveller Editor David Flynn said the inaugural awards program recognised "trend-setters and game-changers in the highly-competitive business travel market".

“With 28 member airlines under its wing, Star Alliance can take business travellers almost everywhere they need to go," said Flynn. "Our readers especially value unique benefits such as the ability to use frequent flyer points or miles to upgrade across all member airlines.

“Star Alliance is also continuing to find new ways to enhance the business travel experience - from its growing network of branded airport lounges and the opening of the state-of-the-art Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, to the ongoing roll-out of Gold Track priority lanes that allow travellers to move through airport security more smoothly.”

"With ANA flying to Australia later this year and with Turkish Airlines planning to fly to Australia as soon as possible, subject to fleet availability and other operational considerations, Star Alliance will be an even better option for Australian business travellers."

Currently 10 Star Alliance member airlines operate services to Australia, including: Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, Asiana Airlines, EVA Air, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, THAI and United. A number of offline members are also active in the market, including, Austrian, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines and SWISS.

Mark Schwab, CEO Star Alliance commented that the Best Airline Alliance Award was testament to the dedication of Star Alliance member airlines in Australia.

“We are delighted to win this important award. With more airlines serving this market than any other alliance we offer our customers a significant choice of flights and transfer connections. It shows that by working together, even without a domestic presence in Australia, our member carriers can deliver genuine benefits to the country’s international business travellers.”

Australian Business Traveller Awards were judged by a panel of business travel experts, with honours presented across 33 categories, including first class suites and business class seats, airport lounges, frequent flyer programs, inflight food and wine and travel technology.

About Australian Business Traveller:

Launched in 2010, Australian Business Traveller (www.AusBT.com.au) is the Asia-Pacific region’s leading website for business travellers and frequent flyers. With over 500,000 unique monthly visitors and 1.6 million page views, Australian Business Traveller also ranks as Australia’s largest independent travel website.

About Star Alliance:

The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award and Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Avianca Brasil, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. Overall, the Star Alliance network currently offers more than 18,500 daily flights to 1,330 airports in 192 countries.

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To safeguard your rights and interests in your transaction process through EVA AIR, the personal information which you have provided us will be verified against that of a third-party agency to facilitate transaction security and prevent your credit card from being fraudulently used by others.

Methods for collecting personal information

EVA AIR will collect passengers’ personal information through the following means:

Infinity MileageLands membership application;

Online booking and other pre-paid services

Taiwan High Speed Rail’s additional purchase service

Online shopping, inflight shopping, refund and after-sales service;

Online services (meal selection, check-in, filling out the arrival/departure records as mandatory required by the competent government authority);

C002: Identifiers of personal finance, including but not limited to: account numbers/names with financial institutes, credit/debit card numbers, insurance policy numbers, or any other number or account regarding personal finance;

C011: Personal details, including but not limited to: age, gender, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, voice, etc.;

C023: Details of the member’s family members, including but not limited to: information about the children, dependents, other members in the family or relatives, parents, cohabiters, or relatives living in China and elsewhere;

C031: Residence and housing facilities, including but not limited to: home address, equipment types, house ownership or tenancy, duration of residence, rents, taxes and the other housing costs, types and value of housing, the owner’s name, etc.;

C034: Travel and other migration details, including but not limited to: details about previous migrations/travels, passports of foreign countries, residence certificates, work permits, etc.;

C035: Leisure activities and hobbies, including but not limited to: hobbies, sports and the other interests;

C038: Occupations, including but not limited to: school principals/presidents, parliamentary representatives, etc.;

C094: Compensations, including but not limited to: the details and amount of compensation/claims;

C111: Health records, including but not limited to medical reports, treatment and diagnostic records, physical exam results, types and levels of disabilities, expiry date and number of disabled certificate, contact persons, etc.

C132: Uncategorized information, including but not limited to: correspondence, files, reports, audio recordings or electronic mails that cannot be categorized.

If you cannot provide the personal information required by the respective service scope, we may not be able to provide, in whole or in part, the services and/or transactions you requested.

Usage period, regions, targets and methods of using the personal information collected

Usage period: The period of use of the personal information mentioned above is based on the duration of collection of the specified purpose, or as determined by applicable laws (e.g. Civil Law, Personal Data Protection Law of Taiwan, etc.) or the period of preservation necessary for the execution of the business (if longer than the period prescribed by law) or on a contractual basis. The length of time for the contract to preserve the data.

Regions: Passengers’ personal information will be used by EVA AIR’s and UNI AIR’s worldwide business offices for providing relevant services.

Targets and methods:

Targets and methods: In addition to applying the collected personal information in ticket purchase, and any other pre-paid service, EVA Air will also use the information in the following areas:

Financial transactions and authorization: the finance-related information provided by passengers in their ticket or all kind of ancillary services purchase will be submitted to respective financial institution in the ticket purchase process (e.g. (ex: preorder, on-line shop or duty free) for credit card authorization or bank transfer) before completing a ticket purchase.

Email, App and text messaging services: EVA Air will send flight-related and order information to the e-mail address and/or mobile phone No. provided by passengers.

Passenger’s personal information may be used by the Company, its contractors, agencies, subsidiaries, associated companies, group, and/or business partners to offer services that include, but are not limited to: general/online reservations, local transportation service, online shopping, online check-in, text-messaging, online events, social activities, membership rewards programs and various types of activities. The data will also serve as a basis for statistical surveys/analyses that will facilitate the provision of the services mentioned above.

For the presentation and marketing of products and advertisement, including the services and products of the Company and/or of a third-party contract partner, and the Company’s contractors, agencies, subsidiaries, associated companies, group and/or business partners.

The personal information you provide is processed via computerized instruments, with the required cross border data transmission to the Company and its contractors, agencies, subsidiaries, associated companies, group, immigration authorities of the arrival country and business partners, for the provision of products and services. The Company shall make every effort to ensure that its employees, agents, contractors, agencies, subsidiaries, associated companies, group and partner service providers observe and adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

When you book or purchase peripheral services (e.g. car rental, local transportation, accommodation, or other related products) through the EVA AIR web-site, EVA AIR mobile web, the EVA Sky Shop web-site and the EVA Sky Shop App, as the process may be completed through a third-party transaction platform, hence the personal information and the finance-related information you input may be collected by suppliers of related travel products for subsequent service provision.

We promise that, without your consent, we will neither disclose your personal information to a third party irrelevant to the named service nor use it for any purpose other than that aforementioned, with the following exceptions: Your personal information may be disclosed, or used, in cooperation with legal investigations initiated by judicial authorities or authorities concerned as per duties and responsibilities.

Other important information

FFP Member’s personal information may be disclosed to the Company’s co-branded card issuers.

Purpose: to inform FFP Members of marketing/promotional events and special offerings concerning the co-branded cards.

The personal information that may be disclosed includes: Chinese/English full name, gender, I.D. Card number, membership card number/type, year of birth, telephone number, mobile phone number and home address.

Usage period: within the period of existence of the contractual relationship between the Company and co-branded card issuers, the record retention period stipulated by relevant regulations, or according to the terms and conditions of the co-branded card issuers.

Targets and regions: the co-branded card issuers and locations of their contractors for handling related affairs.

Methods: the collection, processing, all kinds of international transmission and use of personal information in accordance with the regulations of the Personal Information Protection Act of Taiwan (such as digital files, paper documents, phone, or any other method considered fit for dominant technologies at the time of data collection)

Passenger's rights to his/her personal information

Anyone who voluntarily provides the Company with his/her personal information is entitled to the following rights according to the Article 3 of Taiwan Personal Information Protection Act and Article 16 to 20 of EU General Data Protection Regulation:

make an enquiry or request reviewing the information

request a copy of the information

request supplementation or corrections

request stopping of data collection, handling or utilization

request restriction of processing

request restriction of automated decision-making, including profiling

request deletion ( we may not process or answer your case or other service requests to the extent processing is necessary and the right to erasure shall not be applied according to applicable data protection laws.)

request of data portability

You can exercise any of the aforementioned rights through our worldwide business offices; your request will be handled as soon as your identity is verified. To request the personal data removal, you will need to download the request form (Click on this link to download the Personal Data Removal Request Form). After completing the request form, please submit the request form in person to our offices worldwide.

We will keep your information for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. For example, the legal or business purposes of EVA, or as required by relevant laws.

We will keep the information, so we can fulfil the specific travel arrangements you have made and after that, we will keep the information for a period which enables us to handle or respond to any complaints, queries or concerns relating to the travel agreement and the information may also be retained so that we can continue to improve your experience with us.

If you provide incorrect or incomplete personal information, such as a nickname, which prevents us from verifying your real identity, we might be unable to uphold your exercise of privacy rights listed above.

Collection of information through 'Cookies'

A 'cookie' is a small piece of data sent by a web server to be stored on a web browser. The data collected from cookies is to differentiate the preference of the individual user. Most of the web-sites may use cookies to provide services to their customers. However, a cookie will only identify the use of the computer other than the user. Therefore, you can configure your browser to not accept cookies if you choose, however, if you disable your cookies, you will not have access to certain personalized features or participate in all of the activities on the web-sites.

Keeping our commitment:

EVA AIR will not disclose the data obtained from the Cookies in order to safeguard your privacy. EVA AIR may only use cookies to collect information through your web browser for the following purposes:

To provide you with the personalized transaction and all kinds of services, and invite you to participate in all of the activities on the web-site.

To identify your web preferences for our reference in order to provide you with better services.

To disable the use of cookies, please visit the EVA AIR web-site to get more information. To assist you in this process, we provide links of some of the most popular web browsers:

Information about the cookies we use

Essential Cookie - Essential cookies are essential for the operation of our website that will let you move around our website freely and use functions on the websites. These cookies don’t gather your personal identifiable information that could be used for marketing and are not disclosed to any third party.

Functional Cookies – Functional cookies are used to remember choices you make and improve functionality and your personal features on our web-site.

Performance Cookies - Performance cookies collect information about which pages visitors go to most often, and if you experienced any errors. These cookies help us to improve the performance and user experience of our website.

Advertising Cookies - In order to provide you with the most relevant information about our services and products, we use Advertising cookies to enable us and our advertising agencies to serve you with advertising campaigns that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You might see these advertisements on the websites of EVA Air and on other sites you visit.

Use of third-party cookies

We place third-party tracking code on the website, where a short text is written on the user’s hard disk through the browser to read cookies for the following usage:

EVA AIR partners advertising networks, Google, Knorex, Facebbok and Criteo, to capture non-personally identifiable data from you through third-party cookies. This enables Google, Knorex, Facebbok and Criteo to display targeted and relevant messages from selected third-party websites, based on your viewing behavior on the EVA AIR websites and other selected websites.

Your non-personally identifiable data is shared by EVA AIR with Google, Knorex, Facebbok and Criteo in the strictest confidence, for the unique purpose of serving more relevant advertising. Standards have been defined to ensure appropriate advertising is served, and all served relevant advertisements offer the possibility for you to opt out of such selective advertising by Google, Knorex, Facebbok and Criteo.

Cookie management and browser settings

Most computers and mobile devices browsers are typically set up to accept cookies. If you do not consent to our use of cookie and wish to disable the cookies which are set by EVA Air websites, or any other website, you can do this by changing your browser settings. You can find out how to amend your cookie preference in the help function of your browser. To assist you in this process, we provide links of some of the most popular web browsers:

If you choose to withhold consent and block cookies, you may not be able to access all or part of our websites. To find out more about cookies and how to manage and delete them, you can also visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Collection of IP Address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in internet that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. When you access our website and mobile services, we collect your IP address. We store this information to help us manage security, analyze how our website and mobile services interact with you and do the product marketing and advertisement. We also use IP address to block the visitor, who is unable to comply with the terms of service, from accessing to our website and mobile services.

Collection of E-mail Address

EVA AIR will follow the guidelines for “ Categories of personal information collected” in using the e-mail addresses collected from you to deliver relevant information that you have agreed to receive, including transaction information, services and special privileges, various information notice of Infinity MileageLands such as mileage statement, card tier expired or mileage expired letter, notice of special privileges for member only, etc. and will make known on the e-mail that it is sent by EVA AIR. Our email may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons that allow us to know whether and how many times, our email are opend and verify any click through to links within the email. The Web Beacons will be deleted when you delete the email.

Data profiling and automated decision-making

Marketing activities of EVA AIR and its affiliates or service providers target specific information for users who make reservations through EVA AIR, including the total amount of the transaction and the system generated booking reference and travel itinerary, IP address, etc. We will use this information to observe the effectiveness of our marketing activities and may disclose this information to our partners for similar purposes. The third-party service provider organizes and reports on the collected information to provide better and more personalized transactions and various services.

To understand the habits of tourists, travelers, and members, as a reference for placing relevant marketing campaign information.

To unsubscribe the marketing/promotional message delivery, please visit the EVA AIR web-site to or contact EVA AIR local service center for more information. Link provided below:

Self-Protection

Please safeguard your personal information, additional services and all kinds of online services. Do not disclose your personal information to others. To prevent others from collecting and abusing your personal information, DO REMEMBER TO LOG OUT of the site when you complete a transaction (incl. Internet reservation, shopping, member contact or other data change), and close the window before you leave the site if you share a computer with others.

Modification of the Privacy & Security Statement

EVA AIR reserves the right to change these guidelines and disclaimers from time to time, and the content presented on this page is considered to be the latest version. Should a material modification to our Privacy & Security statement occur, we will post those changes on our website so that you are aware of the changes. EVA AIR also regularly reviews privacy protection/security statements to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Secure Website

In order to protect yourself in the Cyber world, you should validate whether or not the website you're visiting is indeed a legitimate website. EVA Air website (www.evaair.com), EVA Sky Shop web-site (www.shopeva.com) and EVA Air mobile website (m.evaair.com) are secure site with the GeoTrust server Digital ID – of which enable secure communications between your browser and our website.

Transaction and Data Encryption

EVA AIR protects passenger transaction and privacy information with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology, an industry standard for encrypting over the Internet, where text will be automatically encrypted before being securely dispatched over the Internet.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy and Security Statement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Taiwan. Any dispute on claim arising out of this statement will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Please contact us if you have any questions and comments regarding our Privacy and Security Statement.